The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1916, Page 4

Member of tne] Beripps North West League of Brewspapere ed at Meat fm onthe “we v0 Bot By mall, out of etty, one year, $9.80 THE SEATTLE STAR STAR—FRIDAY, JAN. 7, ]|SHY COLONEL HOUSE OF TEXAS BECOMES) hed Dally ftor a Ce, nde mation Sho per Month up toe mos My carrier, efty, 3e @ month Shipbuilding Activity Sign of Good Times S THE new year is ush States is the news that ship-building in the P San Francisco ship-building concern now has sees gating in cost more than.$16,000,000, The Seattle Construction & Drydock Co. building company has been incorporated here Jos. Rolph, San Francisco's mayor of Georgia, another. All this promises well for a real / is American mer has an having built ered in, one of the most i mnising auguries of solid prosperity for the United yards is brisk. 14 vessels, Pacific coast or under contract, sound and go rnvine One One rre- are blocked with loaded freight cars waiting for a million dollar steamer and F. D. Stranchan chant marine And there is no reason under the sun why American capital should not be invested in American Ships. A recent article in a reliable monthly points out that every year $ - States on freight shipments, to foreign ship owne $300,000,000 Is paid by the United In other America pays for the construction words, . of foreign ships as well as contributing to their ont A The writer of the article suggests a substitute plan for the Proposed government-ownership prop- sition, which is simply a return to the 18th century plan of levying a differential tariff of 10 per cent on goods shipped in foreign vessels. To build up an American merchant marine, is presented by the abnormal trade conditions, of this country, he The necessity of doing something is obviou All over the United States, just as in Seattle, th second to none in the world, the opportunity for which rought claims that the American shipbuilder must be about by the war, as never before in the history protected. the proper method more or less obscure. e railroad sidings are blocked with loaded freight tars waiting for ships upon which to unload their burdens. RAUS MIT SUCH REFORM! 2D AH for the women of Berlin! We don’t care what they look like, or what they’re wear- ‘ing, but they’ve put down one effort at so-called ‘orm in a manner that suits. _ Recently, the Berlin Women's Reformers of “Fashion got up a public meeting, under the auspices (alleged) of the crown princess. = bers urged the big crowd to taboo everything foretzt Pin the way of dress, and to return to the sain German, ink-bottle effect in their attire. No more Phigh-heeled shoes, pumps, gauzy stockings, foreign styles or fabrics, etc., etc. A calm, a deadly, tentous, unanimous calm settled upon the ‘concourse of women. Then, an opposition speaker arose. She waved the latest models of gowns. She appealed to women to be women. She showed santples of new that fairly screamed of novelty and up-to- lateness. Whereupon that vast concourse afore- "Said arose and sat down upon that Fashion Re- and the reformers. We chortle in that, amidst all the horrors of and the widespread perversion of human na- ture, the women of Berlin are still real women. “ their butter into nitro-glycerine, boil their les into shrapnel, feed them on chemical meat, you will, Mr. Kaiser, but when you go to abolish tir fashions, you strike up against something that will turn the edge of even authority by “divine oe, Woman is woman, and the fellow who to make something else of her isn’t posted ‘on the stories of Hercules, Samson and Socrates. por- vast IN GERMANY, when a rat Is seen, the police are a A BROOKLYN magistrate say says that street mashers ) are insane and he’s going to send them to a hospital to DIAGNOSE YOURSELF HERE is a peculiar germ which men quickly discover in others but seldom in themselves Its name is Fault. He is lifeless who is faultless,” proverb, meaning men. There are many among them cruelty, ing and selfishness. These make disagreeable men and disagreeable men make a disagreeable world. Life is what you make it AS YOU THINK IT. To a man with a smile the earth is a circus— to the dismal man who lacks cheer the earth is a “sea of troubles.” He who meets others with growls in will be greeted with growls in old age The man who selfishly refuses aid to the needy should not look for aid when in need. The first symptom of Fault infection ts to be unaware of its presence. Cheerfulness, ambition, sinceri ly feelings are the best cures. Lucky the man who knows his Faults— happy the man who labors against them. Be your own physician—diagnose yourself carefully—seek out your Fault germs ruthlessly— do not rest until you kill them. TUBERCULOSIS” GERMS often enter a person thru the skin and frequent bathing keeps the skin pores open, suggests a Western doctor. But we don’t go to bathing with a vacuum- heleanens=7et. OHIO BARBER, the 75-year-old match king, has made a match with his private secretary and is off for a honeymoon at Old Point Comfort! says an old the only perfect men are dead Chief ing, fault-find- kinds of Fault germs. constant na ggi and YOU MAKE IT youth y, and brother- medicines—and_ surest CYNTHIA GREY’S ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS am very much Interested| son who smiles or speaks to m young woman, and would like| What I= the matter with me? #. y her further attention. Would should | act among young fa advisable to give her a gift Fv. Wher birthday which Is In the 4—Your letter indicates that future? | intend to ask her! you may be too free to speak. To me, but would like first gain the friendship of refined young > find out if she cares for me.| women a man must be reasonably can | do so? JIM. | well educated, clean tn hit personal —The gift would surely int!-| habits and modest and respectful the friendship. As to yoursec-| in his bearing toward them the friedship. As to your sec sis question, you cannot very well out the state of her feelings revealing your own. She conceal her feelings until you her outright to marry you. Q—I am a respectable young of 24, a fair dancer and a good Yet | am unable to find iri friend. When | ask to dance with me, or to let me them home, they always an excuse ready. | am not up. | will speak to any per-| Dear Miss Grey: May | eay a few words to the man signing him- self “A Laborer,” whose letter ap peared In your columns a short time ago? lam a working girl. Circum stances have made It impossible to get out ‘of it. 1 have grown up In a nice mid- stances pressed be Into housework when a girl of 15, and same circum- die class home and was sent to a good school, but my parents died and left me and my brothers and witl W.H. FISHER, MGR., Week End Sale Regular $25 Suits In serges, poplins, gaberdines, broadcloth and mannish mix- tures. Styles for women and misses. Sizes 16 to 48— N Special $12.50 Balance of Suit Stock at Greatly Reduced Prices FIRST & COLUMBIA Dresses Choice special values at $9.40, $11.25, $13.90, $15.00 Attractive special values | at $7.50, $9.40, $11.25, $13.90 and up. and up | have volumes 1 to 16 SUBSCRIBER It depends entirely upon the of th to thé sh get for them are several good second hand book stores In th while are lasted in the te hone direc Isters almost penniless. | had to leave school and work to help myl younger sisters. | had no cholece. and now, at 26, | don't see how | could do better If | learned some: thing else Often have | felt the lure of ease as | watched other girls and envied thelr good times, but | kept on the straight and narrow path because | wanted to get married, have a home and babies. It never came tho, Where are those nice work ing men who would appreciate a nice girl and be willing to build a home, even a very small one and take up the duties of married life? I have never met any men to speak of because my money was needed for other things than dresses, par tles and shows. The few | have met were either stupid, or of the ne'er do-well type, whom you find loiter ing around cafes. Are these the ones a girl like me has to choose from, and why? Do people think a girl who works In the house Is stupid and duli? | have kept up with the times and even in the hardest time when | could barely | afford a car ride, | always bought books and read the newspapers. | hate trashy fiction and horror. stories. | am not sentimental, al tho a number of people think a do. mestic is In love most of the time My hope and dream from child hood on was to live on a farm and to work there in the open, and now | am saving a few pennies to get a small place some day where | can work out my own ideas and live| like the human being | intend ed to be. My opinion Is that a working man can have a home ang be happy If he really wants to live up to It, even If he makes but small wages and has little to give for pleasure. | have been in the homes of rich people, yet thelr riches did not make them happy. They were the most miserable beings one could imagine. But | know a family who has but $60 per month, yet they raise five children and send the two oldest to high school and own their home and have saved a little for the rainy days, If they can do it, why not others? Nothing Is Im possible if one only tries HARD-WORKING BUT GIRL, A condition books as When You're Well KEEP WELL \ Another “Aniisle In The} Star's Health Campaign Boing Conducted With Co- operation of American | Medical Association | La - ¢ Sa ° 2 > According to esthetic standards the human nose ts a sign of beauty of which the Gre clan variety 19 onaidered per ection, The nose is also ensential in breathing smelling and volce productior The external air is rarely Sultable for direct breathing Into the throat and lungs. Most- ly It Is too dry and would parch the vocal cords Into con tinual huskiness, if not mois- tened The same effect upon the ining of the throat, windpipe and bron chial tubes invites inflammation and ra Th we breathe tn f nd warmed, THE NOSE motsten therefore, by it normal nose m8 needful th should not be too ed passoxe thru t Hence the r chronic catarrhal cond! serious Infection pro shrinking of the nor mal bones and soft parts that the | nose becomes too roomy. Virulent secretions then cling to the abnor mal surfaces and accumulata Q—I have some books. | need|ncabs and crusts, in wh money and would like to sell them.| germs of decomposition a Could you tell me about the price | manufacture foul odor | should get for them, also if you know of any place | can sell them? |! They are Thomas Carlyle’s works. | » auch a HAPPY ea as h the Rotten teeth are not fit for even “chewing the rag.” Booksell | 1916. PAGE 4 “ASSISTANT PRESIDENT OF U. S.”” MOST POWERFUL FIGURE OUT OF WHITE HOUSE) Col ftaft Mpectat NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Col, Ed ward M. Houno, agnistant president of the United States! Such ts the unique place occupied at Woodrow Wilson's right hand by the mysterious Texan who is now in London on bis second diplomatic trip to Burope, at the request of bis pal, the president Next to the chlef magistrate of the natidn himeeif, Edward Mandel! House is the most influ. ential man in the United States, Altho he holds no office, and ney er has held any, he far outweighs cabinet officers and bureau heads in Washington affairs. He is a@ figure without par allel In our political history. Other presidents have had their Intimate adv But Col, House uniike any of them. He Aske for Nohting The so-calle® “kitchen cabl- nete” of past administrations have been composed either of Col. House asks nothing for him- self. He has more money than a man of his simple tastes could ever spend. He hates the limelight with an intensity that bare from public office. He ts neither philanthropist nor reformer. He represents no interests at Wash ington, elther political or finan etal THEN WHY DOES HE THE POLITICAL GAME? The answer to this question ts as amazing as the man himaelf. Col a CONNOISSEUR OF POLITICS He ts a new kind of collector, |who gathers men and measures, instead of Persian ru postage stamps or Pekinese dog Delivers Clear Report Col. House, after his first mis sion abroad, ave tho president just |what he wanted—a clear-cut view the tangled situation {n war. swept Europe. He came back with no dreams or siasms on the subject of PLAY th en Now he has gone back again to! only one to make an attack, hltrain the white light of his intelll-jever may be the case with a quar situations that rel Kence on the new him | Jean only provide | than @y thave arisen since Col, House ts one of the small & great deal without making any noise, HIS 1 A BALIZ-BEARING PERSONALI TY; he swiftly, but with «or @ rasp se a Texas Banker He was born 67 years ago, at Houston, Texas, and he was NOT He went to Cornell and then went back home to add to the lly fortunes in banking and nd dealing. He became a familar figure at Texas conventions. It was pot long before his skill at political manip. nation began to show itself, and soon aders learned to take hin advic wiry men who do moves th VE RMOOD . E. M. House of Texas and New York; Below, House and the President. 1 Then a Texas governor put him on his staff, and he ‘coloneled’ by his friends ever ince. When the democratic leaders were casting about for presidential timber {n 1911, Col, House attended most of the {mportant conferences. | And {it was during this period that he came Into closest contact with Wilson. His place sistant presi- | dent” did not develop, how- | ever, until Wilson was In of- fice and the Mexican relgn of terror was creasing the presi- dential brow. It was then that Woodrow Wilson developed the habit of dropping in on Col. House at New York, Life Insurance Won't Prevent Death, But War Insurance WILL Prevent War! ¢ BY HERBERT QUICK In comparing preparedness for war with Insurance, we must not forget that it insures against a con far different from death Death is sure to come some time, Insurance cannot prevent it. It against some of the consequences of it I am not one of those who be Neve that war {is like death—inev table and a national and normal historic function. War is avoidable. It Is not avoidable by one nation like the United States, any more fighting is avoidable by one in a community in which fight ing is “normal” and “natural.” It takes two to make a quarrel Only two? Step into a tavern of the old sort to escape the storm outside, and refuse to take a drink with the crowd The man offering you the drink will soon show you that {t takes what T NOTICE IN THe PAPER LO “That Miss SUSIE BLANK TO MARRY SOME FELLOW, KNOW SHE WAS {8S GOING DID YOU MIXED UP IN A SCANDAL CIGHT OR NINE YEARS AGO ¢ SO YoU Have TO DIG IT UP FOR FEAR PEOPLE MIGHT FORGET IT}! YOU TWO-LEGGED HYENA It (a | This world Is a disorderly tavern full of fighting and brawling and robbery. We as a nation cannot get out of the tavern without getting out of the world. War is no more normal and natural than b: room fighting—but In such a world we may have to fight at any time. It may be this very year. We must be prepared to fight, ]no matter how peaceful our inten tions, and it will take us years to | prepare. | | Preparedness for war {s unlike insuranc © against fire because fire | not lie b eon to break out pack for years with its and at last actually break out when your fnsurance is| lapsed and the wind is blowing a gale War does Th paredness for war r part will actually tend to prevent war, since it will deter any other nation from attacking us But, says a friend, if prepared- ness for war will make us more | has been} r buildings, and prepare | — PAGE | ‘LAST ‘COLUMN: YOON PAPER IN ted ite readers to ons to a senator at Washington to urge preparedness The editor of this colyum, determ lined not to be outdone, hereby pro | poses that his readers do a little | coupon w themselves. served in the papers yer that » Will Hom ocked al daylights ed-for prosperity in ouse. Let's give Will a Iittle le shower to show our appreciation his noble ef forts, It pectfully suggested that readers of this colyum clip out |the coupon printed herewith, and mail it to Congressman Will E Humphrey, Washington, D. C, Let us REWARD WILL, AN AFTER atile has | tile sending co ork terda phre out of our @ speech in t Cor the Renny SEND IT TO WILL you predict will come seo: just dote on panies. Hurrah! Fraternally yours, Name Address at statesman, Gladstone, was cutting a tree on his estate. Two yokels each took up a chip to treas- ure. “When | die, lads,” said Sandy, “this chip'll go In my coffin!” “Sandy, | | sald an old wife nding “if thou'd wor. | ip thy God as thou worship | Gladstone, thou'd stand a bet- ter chance of going where thy chip wouldna burn!” | Modern fiction Is too highly colored. For instance, In one story In a current popular mag- ine the author makes angry fat rage, the green with envy, the hero is | justly white with anger and the heroine's blushes are of the | most crimson hue. And he doesn’t forget the chauffeur. He is made to tun blue with | the cold! jeonninioe THE ALLIES SEEM TO DO VERY WELL IN THE CHAM- PAGNE WHILE THE GERMANS ARE BOTTLED UP IN PORT, prone to attack others, {t may even | increase the probability of war. ‘There are many reasons thinking that this is not true anyhow, ¥ }two dangers, if my frien tion is answered “yes.” | 1. Being attacked while de- for But, | nd’s ques seem to stand bi tween | | fenseless. 2. Attacking prepared. I hope neither of these will hap- pen; but as between these two, which would you choose? sO WOULD I! others when “Save a litt your credito! nor Want opp Franklin. 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